The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Rory Madden (University College London))
on
Scepticism about one's own existence
Tuesday, 9 March, 2010, 4.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
ABSTRACT
Is it beyond doubt that one exists? In this talk I will describe a number of ways of constructing scenarios which form the basis of a sceptical challenge to the knowledge that one exists . Some of these possibilities depend upon unorthodox metaphysical views about the nature of existence, or the conditions for thought ownership -- but some of them do not. Instead they build on the general point that a sceptical scenario concerning a certain proposition p need not be a case in which p is false. I will conclude that scepticism about one's own existence should be taken no less seriously than other, more familiar, forms of sceptical challenge.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk at ceu.hu
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